Demand of service tax in the wrong category by the department - A win-win situation for the assessee / defaulter

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..... Demand of service tax in the wrong category by the department - A win-win situation for the assessee / defaulter - Commentaries / Editorials Dated:- 21-10-2007 - News - Demand of service tax in the .....

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..... wrong category by the department - A win-win situation for the assessee / defaulter " It happens many times that when assessee is not paying service tax either due to ignorance or due to bonafide .....

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..... belief that its services are not taxable or even with intend to evade payment of service tax, departmental officers (Revenue Auditors or Jurisdictional Officers) force the assessee to deposit the serv .....

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..... ice with interest. However, we are suggesting the bonafide assessees that before depositing service tax; proper assessment must be done and pros and cons must be analyzed. There are several instan .....

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..... ces, in which the assessee has opted for legal rout of SCN + Appeal and won the case on the following grounds: 1 Department fails to properly classify the category of services on which demand is bei .....

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..... ng raised. 2 Period of limitation. 3 Several other grounds, which depends on case to case basis. There are several judgments for setting aside the demand raised by the department on the basis of .....

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..... one or more grounds discussed as above. These judgments can be found in the Case Laws - Section . - News - Press release - PIB Tax Management India - taxmanagementindia - taxmanagement - t .....

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